So, after 4 days the two cat girls who wanted to learn the song had it down and sang it through the town and Orion took them to sing to Lilian they did and he introduced them to her and she approved and gave them a free pass in her forest she placed her mark on them. And they all left together the cat girls chatted about how they learned from Sherly and how she made it easy to learn and how nice she was, Orion expressed his gratitude they worked so hard to learn. He also said they could learn other songs and they could be mages but it would take time to learn and they would have to get books of magic. They could copy some chapters from the book Shery is teaching from but only with her permission. You must not interfere with Night's training because she is about to start to get sword forms and the hard training is supposed to begin. After she is done for the night, you can interact but when she is training let her train, I don't want her hurt when we go out on actual combat missions, I want her to be sure of her actions and have confidence in herself. The cat girls both said you really care about us don't you. Orion says "of course I do. If I didn't this world would fall and we all would be miserable till we die and then some". He takes the girls home and returns to the cottage and as night finished her forms combinations Orion says "by now you should know the forms are a dance so let's dance". The two fought as she went through all the forms she has learned this time, and after going through them several times she fell and Orion clapped and said "you have done very good. Keep up the training and practice"! Night looks at Orion and says in amazement so you are testing me and doing it in a way to make everything fun". Orion smiles and says "if its not fun who would want to do it? Did you know that Sherly was just like you about 4 weeks ago? Training the forms but look at her now she looks pretty bad ass with the sword in hand. You too will be like her. There are oaths you have to take but you will do fine. Have Sherly Tell you about them. Next week you will start sword forms and we will go through them a couple of times. The week goes smoothly the cat girls come and practice every day to become mages and Night starts using the wooden sword to practice her sword forms Orion works with Sherly and helps train Night by dancing with her with both hands to hand and swords. One night as night was getting close to the end of the 2nd week of training Orion had made a 3rd wooden sword and had both Sherly and Night dance with him and both Sherly and Night jumped at Orion the sound of the swords hitting once again brought a crowd of people they watched as Night and Sherly started to work together to attack Orion and he skillfully parried their blows at times he would use one of the girls attacks to attack the other by sending them into the other this keeps up for a couple of hours and Orion finally puts both girls on their buts one after the other once again the crowd burst into applause. The 3 of them all bowed and smiled as the crowd left. Orion looks at Night and Sherly and "says the more you practice and the more experience you have the more options you are able to see the reason I had you to dance together against me is so you could see more ways the forms work and to also let you see it means you can take on more than one opponent at a time and that its all about practice. As you see I Don't get angry when I fight not just because I look at it as a dance but also because anger muddles the mind and that's when your enemy can control your actions. And if the enemy has control, he wins. As you see every time we fight because I have more experience, I have control over the battle. My hope is that by dancing with you as you train that you learn and gain experience and when you fight with someone like me you won't let them control the battle because you will be able to throw him off. You will be fighting spirits that have lived a very long time and are very cunning. At the beginning of the 3rd week Orion collected the swords from Stormgar and held an oath ceremony for Night. The other 2 cat girls sang her song of truth for the ceremony and it was Sherly who was her first dance and she had 7 other beast-men line up to have a chance. The next morning Night showed up extra early because they were headed to where the horses were. He called the cottage back and with the horses went to where the herd of horses were on the way he taught night the songs for bonding and told her how to sing for her horse and away they went. On the hill where the herd was the sang the calming song to get close and once close, they let night sing her song. It was a song of family of love of joy of having a shadow harm her father and him disappearing of wanting to protect others to stop other family's from losing members and of needing a companion. They waited an hour and she sang again and waited another hour and she was about to sing again when a stunning white horse came to her. She whispered to him I'm night and I will Name you day. They all go back to the cottage and a stall is set up for her horse the three go in the cottage and night marvels at the magic cottages bath, kitchen and bedrooms. Every thing was so nice the slept that night and the next morning they set out. They rode the horses and one of the things that Orion picked up was another saddle for Night. As they continued north, they stopped to meet the Dryad then continued through the forest to the beast village they stopped briefly to say their good byes. After leaving the beast village they traveled north. They were discussing tactics and how to fight When they were attacked by a bunch of orcs, they were huge and wielding weapons this was when the girls first saw the forms used on the back of a horse Orion was telling them as he went how to do so and the 3 fought off the orcs
